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Tremendous modeling and attention to detail.
So what are you using for reference? I'm assuming you have something more than the two photos at the beginning of this post. Just curious.
Never mind, just Googled it and there seems to be a ton of reference material for this beauty.
Looking forward to seeing this project develop.
Dave,
Beautiful work 
BTW, I'll give you five bucks for a copy of all your texture libraries (mainly the wood stuff, I really suck at wood stuff and can never find what I need anywhere online).
I'm talking cash!
Steve
Welcome to the forums, Guillaume! Looking forward to seeing some of your work here.
Wow, can't imagine the amount of research that went into this! Makes my efforts seem so insignificant.
I'm not sure I understand what appears to be an ice sculpture at 21:45. But then I understand very little about pretty much anything nowadays 
Nice, but I picture a wizard's den as dark and moody, not bright and cheerful. But hey, that's just me 
From one Steve to another, I must say that this is one of the most impressive pieces of work I have seen here on the forums. You, sir, are an artist!
@juju said:
@hellnbak said:
I've got everything almost ready to install a new C drive (Samsung 850 Pro, my SSD of choice), I'll tackle that this afternoon.
Good choice on the SSD! Please tell me it is the PCIE version and not the SATA version, it's much quicker.
No, I'm just sticking with the SATA version. Yes, the PCIE is much faster, but it's speed that I don't really need. I do no gaming or anything like that. Just old-fart stuff
Well, just out of curiosity I uninstalled 2015, then (I thought) reinstalled it. The thumbnails were fine, but the program itself was driving me nuts. Finally I realized that I had mistakenly installed 2017 
So, uninstalled that and then installed 2015. Thumbnails are still fine.
I'm going to install a new C drive anyway, for various reasons.
@juju said:
@hellnbak said:
@juju said:
Try re-doing the file association, take a look a this post of mine.
I'd love to take a look at it, but for some reason it says that I'm not authorized...
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that is strange, seeing you are a premium member, maybe contact Rich O'Brien to take a look...
I'll quote my post below:
"Presumably you're on a Windows 10 machine?Find any SKP file, right click on it, go to "open with", select choose another app, under other options select more apps, scroll to the bottom and select "look for another app on the PC, navigate to SketchUp 2017 EXE file location, select open.
That should do the trick."
Even if you're on an earlier Windows OS, much the same process would apply.
Thanks juju,
Actually I had already done that (Win 7 Pro), and the only difference was that the thumbnails went from looking like this....
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to this...
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The thumbnails are my only real concern. Even tho for whatever reason it gives me the option of opening the file in either 2013 or 2015, if I just double click on the file it opens with 2015 just fine. So there's no real problem there, but I need to see the thumbnails.
I've got everything almost ready to install a new C drive (Samsung 850 Pro, my SSD of choice), I'll tackle that this afternoon.
I really appreciate your help with this.
Steve
Well, doesn't matter, I've decided to replace my C drive and start everything from scratch. Something I do every now and then, and it's overdue. Looks like the next few days are spoken for 
@juju said:
Try re-doing the file association, take a look a this post of mine.
I'd love to take a look at it, but for some reason it says that I'm not authorized...
I've been using SU 2015 for a long time, but recently (for reasons that I won't go into) I also installed SU 2013. Only used it for an hour or so, then uninstalled it. I used Iobit Uninstaller, which did a deep scan to remove all traces of the program.
Unfortunately, my supposedly super-smart computer doesn't seem to realize that the program is no longer there. Whenever I open a project folder now, instead of thumbnails I see this....
I can click on one and it does open with 2015 ok, but when I save it still shows only the emblem, not the thumbnail.
And when I right click on one it gives me option of opening it in either 2013 or 2015....
I have done a thorough search of my C drive to see if some remnant might remain of 2013, but found nothing. Any ideas or suggestions????
Yay, something with wheels!
Looking good, Mike. I'm curious as to why you say you might have gone too small (assuming the driver can fit comfortably in it).
Also curious about the object protruding from the front. A laser maybe?
Keep at it!
Steve
TIG,
I bow to your expertise, and will reinstall SU at some point. For now it is working well, no more SKB's, no problems.
I still do not understand why, of the many times and many computers I have installed SU on over the years, without using "run as administrator", it did not cause problems with these installs. I am not questioning the wisdom or correctness of your advice and recommendations, I'm certainly not qualified to do that. I just like to understand the whys and wherefores of things when I can. I guess I could just chalk it up to being lucky, but that's just not the way things go for me
Again, thanks
Steve
TIG,
Well I gave your suggestion a try, but......
I AM logged in as Administrator, and I DID click on "run as administrator" when starting the repair.
I think I will just let things go for now, and if it does start to give me problems I will do a reinstall of SU.
thanks again,
Steve
@dave r said:
I asked what version of WINDOWS?
oops...Windows 7 Pro, all I ever use (except my main laptop does have Win 8 on it, kept it just out of curiosity and haven't been bothered by it enuf to go to the trouble of switching it to Win 7)
@dave r said:
The correct way to install SketchUp is to right click on the installer and choose run as administrator.
Yes, I will do that for any future installs. Thanks.
Steve